Yup. Mommy will tell us that money really does grow on trees, and the whole problem with the economy that she inherited from that evil George Bush is that the rich won't share their money trees with the poor people who don't have any money trees.

Their analysis looks very weak. They take three states and assert that falling numbers for the GOP governors are mirrored by rising numberts for O'bama.

Yet NONE of the three articles (also by TPM, you'd think they ought to read their own drivel) that they link to for support even mention O'bama and the polls linked from the second tier articles dont mention O'bama either.

Garage is right. Enacting economic restraints needed on unlimited government free rides finds the same NIMBY reaction that a landfill or Nuclear Plant produce. Sure we need it, but I am so powerful that I can stop it anyway. That is another reason we need a Palin explaining wealth and jobs and not a Romney agreeing with every NIMBY he talks to. How is that ethanol subsidy working out in the food prices all over the world?

Both Obama and the governors' policies could be very unpopular in 2012. A smart governor would say that I have to institute these tough policies because Obama is ruining the country with his economic policies and Obamacare. I have to cut Medicaid because Obamacare is going to force us to expand Medicaid to cover even more people. I'll also have to raise taxes to pay for Obama's policies.

If Obama can blame W. for everything, then these governors can blame Obama.

These governors apparently are only unpopular with those who live off the taxpayers. As a Floridian, I really don't give a crap that teachers didn't get a 3% COLA. Or a cut in medicaid. Or a cut in funding local PBS stations. The governor is doing exactly what he said he would do during the campaign. As a taxpayer, whats not too like? Better to cut them than raise my taxes.

The reason that this is humorous is that most often, coat tails go the other way - top down. WTF (Winning the Future) would someone vote for President Obama because they didn't like the performance of a Republican governor who likely isn't even on the ballot?

My guess is that this is, not surprisingly, pure spin, in an attempt to bolster President Obama's reelection chances.

10 states flipped to GOP Governors in 2010. Current party affiliation is 29 GOP, 20 Dem, 1 Independent. Asking which GOP Governor is the least favorite is like asking school kids which is their least favorite flavor of ice cream.

This is called shooting the messenger, and it's almost inevitable. There are many tough decisions that must be made because of decades of profligacy, by left and right. But the voters don't really like the message, and nice warm manipulative mommy is telling them that mean old daddy is probably going to molest them at any moment.

Stories like this usually don't end well for the children (in this case the voters), and this is probably no exception to that rule.

We probably are going to deny ourselves into a major league world crisis over this, and mommy will still be blaming daddy. The world being what it is, she may get away with it.

Even if the GOP governors are unpopular, there is some serious branding going on here. What matters, in the end, is not what policies get enacted in the next four years, but what policies get enacted over the long run. And eventually, not matter what, the American people will learn that all bills have to be paid, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Maybe not now, but they will eventually. And by then, Republicans will have successfully been branded as the serious ones.

TPM is unreliable in such things as facts. It is true that polls are showing some decline in support. What is important is whether these measures work. If the states are in better shape next year, or at least in better shape than the blue states, the support will recover. Reagan had poor poll number two years into his term but got 49 states two years later.